percussiveness

Their percussiveness makes them suitable as an accompaniment to congregational singing.

In part this was because the angularity and percussiveness of the Graham vocabulary came through most strongly.

During ensemble sections the band swung with such ferocity and percussiveness that it never needed a drummer.

The contraction is compelling, but the release is equally important: its completion makes the percussiveness of the movement.

Men and women kick high, and these leg extensions have the percussiveness common to theatricalized jazz dance.

But Mr. Martins works subtle variations on the music's sharp-edged percussiveness.

The playing is powerful, if somewhat choppily mannered, which is intensified by the percussiveness of the piano.

The choreography, mostly new, stresses the basics of Miss Graham's familiar angular cupped-hand percussiveness.

The percussiveness of that exchange continued through Mr. Friedlander's improvisation, which was plucked rather than bowed.

The meanings of all these words are consistent with the percussiveness, dancing, and uninhibited behaviors historically associated with boogie-woogie music.

Rock fans, however, may prefer a tape with extra headroom in the upper frequencies, for this is where rock's clangor and percussiveness make their primary impact.

Its seven scenes opened with a short concert played on the bells, which have a ringing percussiveness and overtones that are strongly dissonant but not unpleasant.

You'll need to tune string 6 down to D and then pick, pull-off and hammer-on with as much percussiveness as you can muster.

Mr. Jones, who tends toward percussiveness in loud passages, is best in the more lyrical pieces, where his restraint yields a truly singing tone.

Their pas de deux is more aggressive, in line with the music's percussiveness, and the partnering is more complex than in the first duet.

Seesawing wildly between a clanging percussiveness and a sea-shanty simplicity, the raw musical textures played by an ensemble of eight keep "Alice" firmly grounded.

Back on the main stage,BASTI are the night's anachronism, but their errant percussiveness sees 'em through.

Mr. Weston, the pianist, has a dynamic style: it leads him toward the extreme ends of the piano with a ringing percussiveness that's pure Ellington.

They like only pretty, sugary, well-reverberated sounds - bells, harps, lone piano notes - and slow-moving melodies; speed and percussiveness are forbidden.

There's a new vocabulary of electronic sounds that flaunt their artificiality and percussiveness, from sampled bits of older music to beefed-up machine-generated drumbeats.

The church of Duke Ellington admitted many denominations: gospel, opera, tap and interpretive dance, European orchestral music and hot, small-group percussiveness.

Stephen Gosling, a brilliant pianist seated to the left of the floor cloth, plunged into the hurried percussiveness of Xenakis's "Evryali."

I understand that the percussiveness of two hard "c" sounds followed by the "air"-ing out of one's disgust is satisfying to say, but read the previous sentence again.

A virtuosic impressionist of the jazz flute, Dave Valentin evokes the natural world in tone poems that combine a lively percussiveness with a vivid sense of color.

The absence of a bassist emphasized the range of his piano playing, which tends toward a supple sort of percussiveness - as if he were pressing, not striking, the keys.